Response 3

In the collection of essays written y Bourriaud he argues that relational art privileges intersubjective relations, In his comparison and description of Tiravanija, he insist that “the viewer by physically present in a particular situation at a particular time” This to me is an interesting opinion to read, especially when you compare the other essay written about Transaesthetics, in the paragraph about technology, I enjoy the questions posed that allow us the artist to really think about what our art is saying by the methods and mediums we are using!

How can we learn to live with technology? For me that is how my art always starts out, I am using a digital HD way to capture images and transform then by using another form of technology, photoshop, from there I take a more historic form of art, printmaking, and create simplistic images that represent beauty.

“ In all era's artist have used tools to at hand to make their art” I feel that this statement as of today has stood true up until more recent times. With artist such as koons, and hurst there idea is there and the technology that is used to make it is done by a human hand but not always by the hand of the artist. And this can raise a new question along side “what challenges does it present?” The idea that the art is not made by the artist is a larger scale issue or is it? Is it okay or necessary to have “minions” to create your work? Can you just be the visionary? Or, is by the artist not making his or her own work make everyone the next Steve Jobs? Can you have the idea, surround yourself with smarter, and more talented people then yourself to get the jobs or ART done exactly how you intend it to be made? I feel that all of these questions make up more questions which I am okay with! I also feel that as a printmaker who uses technology to create pre work, there is still that element that Tiravanija says the viewer is able to be physically present. And as an artist you can have that ahhhaa moment. “ I do not want to do an interactive work, I want to do an active work. To me, the most important activity that an art work can provoke is the activity of thinking.”